Did you ever see the full moon rise? I can’t remember ever watching a moonrise before my neighbor, Jill, told us about it last summer. Standing out on long pier on a clear evening, we oohed and aahed … [Read more...]
He changed, he just changed
It is curious that Jesus says salvation has come to Zacchaeus’ house, ”because he too is a son of Abraham.” It isn’t because Zacchaeus gave away half his belongings and a whole lot of money … [Read more...]
Small Voices
It always comes back to this, as Mary Oliver wrote. Nature, the power of its voice. It was the grass that caught my eye, as does a twinkle of light in the dark. In the state park, just past the … [Read more...]
Change – Want it
SERMON TEXTS Psalm 8 and Mark 10:2-16 See below for a video version of this sermon “Change” by Rainer Maria Rilke Want the change. Be inspired by the flame where everything shines as it … [Read more...]
Reversal Wisdom
The YouTube video follows the text While the story we heard from John this morning, does not appear in the other gospels, one of it’s sentences does and is clearly a preserved Jesus saying. Here … [Read more...]
Read the Seasons
“Now Rabia, this is the time to write.” I say it with a mock sternness, unsure if she can discern humor. She looks back at me with what I judge to be pools of affection in her baby brown eyes, blond … [Read more...]
2020, Finally!
2020. Wow! There were so many strategic plans named 2020. Colleges, school boards, hospitals, businesses, even the village of Oswego, not to mention the Association for Strategic Planning, all … [Read more...]
The Comfort of Trees
The scenery surrounding where I live has shifted from a gnarly grandmother oak, flanked by two vibrant Japanese maple children, to a basilica of ash and locust trees in their prime – ones that would … [Read more...]
Thirty-Eight Years a Priest and Thirty-Eight Years of Sobriety: How I failed at both by Cameron Miller … [Read more...]
Ah, the Seasons!
If it were mid-summer, a cloudless blue sky with the lake sparkling diamonds of morning light, and the only thing a body wanted to do was sit still and not move, it could be a warning sign of … [Read more...]